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ALEXANDER SPOEHR
ALEXANDER SPOEHR
Pages 294-313
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His mother, Florence knee Mann) , was a writer en c!
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These latter, along with Manuel Anciracle, Robert Redfield, and Fred Eggan, were singled out by him as his most influential mentors. Although his principal interest was, en c!
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In January 1953 he mover! to Honolulu to become clirector of the Bernice Pauhi Bishop Museum, the position having become vacant through the death of its part-Maori director, Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa)
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of observational stucly of the toolusing techniques of {apanese-American carpenters ant! archival research on the history of the Hucison's Bay Company in nineteenth-century Hawaii, the writing and publication of several journal articles, and service on several committees en c!
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. He was in the process of unclertaking more archival research in Hawaii's fine libraries when, in 1990, his wife, Anne, suffered a crippling stroke, which requires!
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Previously, the museum and its meagerly paid staff survived mainly on the small proceeds of its original grant, having received only small grants from local foundations and occasional ones from wealthy philanthropists, including some who gave for personally accompanied expeditions. In contrast, Alex went out actively in search of funds.
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Other research programs initiated or sponsored by Spoehr were the YaTe-Bishop Museum fellowships, a survey of the insects of Micronesia, the zoogeography of Pacific insects, several Hawaiian archeological cligs, the natural en c! cultural history of the Honaunau (Hawaii IsTancI)
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States," with emphasis on the interchange of "persons, knowIecige, en c! icleas" a daunting challenge even to someone as hitherto successful as Alex Spoehr, who nevertheless accepted, later explaining: "After nine years at the Bishop Museum I felt I was growing stale at the job, and succumbing to a sense of adventure en c!
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Congress) concerning goals, priorities, and, derivatively, the budgeting of funds plus the perceived wish of some University of Hawaii administrators and faculty to exercise stronger and more direct control of the center's programs.
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Statistical Committee of the Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Council, a consultancy to the newly founded Hawaii Maritime Center, plus very active membership in the Hawaiian Historical Society, including membership on its Boarc! of Trustees en c!
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Perhaps most notable of these were the South Pacific Com mission, the Pacific Science Association,anc! the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
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by Alex in ~ 938-39: Spoehr was the first real anthropologist to study the Florida Seminole, his work among the Oklahoma Seminole was pioneering too, but others had been there before him. His field work in Florida was not lengthy, but he did manage to collect a good deal of very valuable data under very difficult circumstances.
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: Alexander Spoehr's 1949-50 work in the Marianas primarily on Saipan and Tinian included identification of a number of village sites, and important excavation work. These were the first modern archaeological excavations in Micronesia.
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. More surprising, his radiocarbon dates the first samples processed for Micronesia placed initial occupation cat 1500 B.C., a time depth far greater than any researcher had anticipated for the islands of Micronesia.
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For an assessment of Spoehr's archeological researches in the Philippines, I turned to another Philippines specialist in the anthropology department of the University of Hawaii, Manoa Bion Griffin: Zamboanga and Sulu has had a bigger impact [than Protein from the Sea] , as has the related archaeological excavations Spoehr undertook.
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WISH TO AC~OWLEDGE, gratefully, information from the following individuals used in compiling this memoir: Steve Boggs, Ross Cordy, Barbara Dunn, Roland Force, Bion Griffin, Alan Howard, Marion Kelly, Yosihiko Sinoto, Robert Kiste, Richard Lieban, Roger Rose, Richard Scaglion, Alexander Harding Spoehr, William Sturtevant, and Stephen Williams.
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Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, vol.
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241-53. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press.
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3, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. 1981 Lewis Henry Morgan and his Pacific collaborators: a nineteenth century chapter in the history of anthropological research.
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